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Started months ago, and delayed by my move, I finally was able to get out my partially completed Magnet build for some update photos. I had been planning a sail like this for quite sometime... sort of a reverse pinstripe motif. I'm looking forward to completing this as my first step to tackle my giant build list.

As you have speculated, I glued the yellow strips to the back of the sail... Then stitched on either side of where the pinstripe would be. I then cut out the relief from the front of the sail like an appliqué technique.

Pretty cool pinstrip technique. That's a long straight line to cut with scissors...

Rather than use scissors, I use a seam cutter. I just run it along the stitches and it turns our smooth. I did clean up a few spots with scissors, but for the most part I used the seam ripper technique.

The bigger deal is getting the stitches perfect so they can be used as a guide when cutting out the relief.

Krijn, to answer your question, the end product does look basically like the shooter or superfly UL (although the stripes on my magnet are only 6mm wide, opposed to either of those that appear to have wider stripes) . I don't know if they reach the result in the same way. During my sail prep, I layer out the black panels with normal overlapping seams. I then (before any sewing) glued the yellow strips to the back of the seams. the strip is exactly 3x the width of the original seam overlap. When I sew up the sail, I stitch on either side of the original seam (doubling the amount of sewing time). Then, using a seam cutter, I cut the relief out so the yellow panels show in the front. The previous picture doesn't do the color justice; it really pops in the sun.

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